Client
Municipality
Size
12 classrooms · 3,900 m²
Structure
Larch post and beam, clay plaster
Classroom ribbon
7.20 × 1.80 m
Year
2023
A primary school of twelve classrooms where every corridor ends in a window.
The town wanted a school that could take another storey in twenty years. We set a larch frame on a six-metre grid, left it exposed and kept the services in the corridors, so classrooms can merge, split or become something else. The long window sits at desk height: children see the meadow, not the sky.
We visit every finished building after the first winter and again after two years, and we publish what we would do differently.
Location
Uster
Programme
Education
Main wall
Larch ochre
Status
Built
Classroom at desk height
Corridor end, bench and coats
